THE KITCHEN TABLE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 16

THE KITCHEN TABLE

Many housewives are content to jog along with the good old-fashioned ordinary kitchen table, and they would be surprised to learn what a lot of time and trouble can be saved in tho culinary domain by the improved variety illustrated here.

Should you be in tho happy—or unhappy—position of requiring to furnish afresh, you would naturally want to equip yourself with a kitchen table which is fitted with a porcelain or enamel slab for the making of pastry. If, on the other hand, you have had your table for some time, and it is of the plain variety, it is now possible for you to buy for it a strip of enamelled metal for attaching to its top, and bo enable it to perform the same function as the improved one. Tables thus provided are easy to wash. They can be cleaned half a dozen times a day bymeans of a damp cloth, without appreciably adding to the work of the cook.

Kitchen tables which are fitted with a closed-in cupboard below that does not extend to the; front of the table are great space-savers in a kitchen which is too small to accommodate the necessary quantity of store and'other cupboards. The fact that the under cupboard is lesa wide> than the table enables one to sit at the latter without finding one's legs in the way. One type of table of this sort has a hinged flat front, which can be let down when the full depth of the table is not required.

A hint in jjassing: Always scrub a kitchen table with cold water and a spr inking of some cleansing powder. The cold water does not open the pores of the wood in the same way as hot water, and keeps the table-top looking as if it were absolutely new.

Casserole De Poisson Eeligieuse.—A slice of whito fish, 21b new potatoes, lib cooked butter beans, 4oz butter or margarine, 1 tablespponful each of chopped parsley and shallot, 4oz mushrooms. Cook the slice of fish—hake, cod, halibut, or turbut is suitable (about IJlb) —in salted water; then drain well. Have ready cooked the new potatoes arid the butter1 beans; place the butter in a good-sized casserole, and when it is molted add tho chopped parsley and shallot and the mushrooms, also chopped, and cook gently for ten minutes. Then put in the slice of fish, tho beans, and potatoes, make very hot, and baste well. Season nicely with salt and pepper, and a good squeeze of lemon juice, and serve very; hot la the casserole.